Remarks by Mo Malakoutian
103 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Then hopefully we are going to share all of these great lesson learns with the whole city and our community engagement efforts. Can I get the motion please?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“It's been moved by Council Member Briar and seconded by Council Member Sommadevaraya. Any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you. On this fun note, we are going to take a break. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“We are going to be back by 7.28, 10 minutes. We start over. Thank you so much. We are back and we continue with our second study session. City Manager, would you introduce that to us?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much, guys. Andrew, Mark, Laura and the whole transportation team. Great job. John, I appreciate you also as well. I personally think this new program structures makes it much easier for the council and our public to understand where transportation thinking and dollars are going and why and I think this makes sense of your growing and we need to plan ahead. Let's just start with our Deputy Mayor Hamilton.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you deputy mayor till John you are here and the slide is that it just asked the clarification question So the 30 percent of 11 million is paid by Bellevue resident comparison 95 percent of 2 million”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“100% of 2 million versus 30% of 11 million.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And then the sales tax would be still bigger from the Bellevue because 30% of 11 million is larger than 100% of 2 million. Is that correct? That is correct. Great. Council Member Robinson.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Council Member Robinson. Council Member Saldivaria.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Can you please go to that slide, please, if you don't mind? It's 12. Absolutely. Thank you so much.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Councillor Rosamundi-Verea. Councillor Brouillard.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Council Member Brouillard. Councilman Borgo.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“We will definitely be considering that for September.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Do you want to go? Yeah, please, go ahead. Council Member Briar.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Great question. Do you want to go? Okay, great. No, I was asking for more. Great. I always say this, that I am so honored to serve with my colleagues because they are a bunch of smart, passionate, compassionate human beings that They are doing an amazing job representing the City of Bellevue, so I wanted to thank them. I am going to just do some plus ones for the sake of time. On the slide that we have that I think both Council Member Biryar, Council Member Bargavo, and maybe even Council Member Somadeviria talked, so in the memory bank, you are going to elaborate more on this and put maybe…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Great. So if you can get, again, in the memory bank some more elaboration, how you are thinking about the framework of first portfolio programs and then project in each programs would be great. Council Member Somadevirio brought the 60% to 90%. I would love to see also more kind of context. And again, you see that that even can change when you come to the budget is a moving needle, I understand. But I think it still is a huge shift. What was your thinking and what is some of your maybe in your word, innovative way of funding. If you can have more context in the memory bank on that, I would…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. They are not helping you. Great. Can I ask you one question? So if, as my colleague mentioned, we improve the safety of last mile with walk and bike and rolling and transit and bus stop, if we improve the connectivity of them, Is it possible that we move some of the number of the last two columns, the high occupancy vehicle and single occupancy vehicle, and we shift them through the three buckets or maybe the two buckets on bike, walk, and transit?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And if we change some numbers, from the single occupancy and by having more safe, more connected to the bike and walk and public transport, if we have connected the last mile and my colleagues brought first mile, everything, do we help the congestion?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“So in summary, to address congestion, I think we have maybe two methods. One is maybe increase the intersection capacity, that's one way, but the other way is help the other modes to be more popular, more safe, more connected, that people hopefully change their habit. Okay, great. John, you wanted to say something, I was interrupting you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And that's exactly my next question after all of this. This now projection of increase, 49,000 in walk, 54,000 in transit, and 5,000 in bike, are these projections after filling the gap or as what it is?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I got the growth, but for example, that number of growth for the bike, 5,198. IS THAT CONSIDERING THAT WE ARE GOING TO DO THE SPRING BOULEVARD CONNECTION AND ALL OF THE OTHER GAPS OR IS NOT SEEING THOSE?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“If we can see any of those modeling a little bit for our and for public, that would be great. Thank you so much. I think overall we are going to the. hopefully right direction, making transportation planning more transparent. I think we are doing that with the memory bank. And if you can address all of my colleagues there, that would be great. And when we move to the budget discussion, I think It is challenging to finding revenue, but also make sure that every dollar is tied to clear priorities and measurable result, I think, as much as we can, I think would be great. This is just…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Bianca and Hannah and the whole team. Hannah, I would remember you as the MFT queen. So thank you for all of your efforts on this journey that we have had. Appreciate that you all. come back, listen to all of our comments, to listen to all of the community comments, and came back with this more targeted proposal. Let us go around the room. Council Member Robinson, we'll start with you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Council Member Bargava.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Council Member Somerville.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Deputy Mayor Hamilton.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026